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Snowball put out a petrol fire (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

proliferate

'snowball' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'out a petrol fire' is the wordplay.
'out' indicates anagramming the letters.
'a'+'petrol'+'fire'='apetrolfire'
'apetrolfire' anagrammed gives 'PROLIFERATE'.

'put' is the link.

(Other definitions for proliferate that I've seen before include "Increase rapidly in number" , "Mushroom" , "Grow rapidly in number" , "spread" , "snowball" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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